I Love Success!

How gratifying it is to get a call from my client who, not only has been offered a promotion to Managing Director, but that the promotion occurred while she is working in a male-dominated company, in a male-dominated industry, and, she’s 7 months pregnant!

Her secret sauce? Leveraging her EQ skills!

In our engagement, we focused on these areas:

How to continue the same level of performance pre-pregnancy while during her pregnancy.

How to leverage her EQ strengths to build powerful relationships, even with male curmudgeons. (EQ Skill: Interpersonal Relationships)

How to see things as they are rather than as they “should” be, which led her to engage more effectively in cross-silo collaboration, problem-solving, and flexibility to move her agenda forward. (EQ Skill: Reality Testing, Empathy, Flexibility).

Shifting her identity from that of star individual contributor to star leader.

How to use empathy skillfully across different types of personalities in order to build relationships, have the tough but sensitive conversations, and to win over the difficult peers. (EQ Skill: Empathy).

How she shifted from being a doubting, people pleaser who wanted to be liked and transformed into being a respected listener, collaborator, contributor, and eventually influencer.

How to transform a tough conversation with her boss from fear and anxiety to a deeper alliance all by using self-awareness and empathy. (EQ Skill: Emotional Self-Awareness, Empathy).

How to see her natural empathy not just as a “bleeding heart” but as a marketable skill that she can skillfully draw upon in a variety of managerial situations to her success.

With the combination of executive coaching and a powerful tool that measures EQ skills, my client achieved Even More Success than she imagined possible. Her pre- and post-coaching EQ scores dramatically increased.